Carborundum
[,kɑrbə'rʌndəm]
Examples
- Acheson, the inventor of carborundum, who built a number of plants in Italy and France before he returned home. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In Fig. 23 is seen the Acheson electric furnace for producing carborundum. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- They are built of enormous blocks of carborundum, and the task of entering the city seemed, to my escort of green warriors, an impossibility. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
Typed by Carlyle